1. The Need to Look at Play in Diverse Cultural Settings
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine and James E. Johnson
2. Play in the East Indian Context
Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Ziarat Hossain, Preeti Gill, and Holly Brophy
3. Children's Play in Taiwan
Hui-Ling Wendy Pan
4. Children's Play in Japan
Michio Takeuchi
5. Peer Interactions in Polynesia: A View from Marquesas
Mary Martini
6. Mainland Puerto Rican Children
Lourdes Diaz Soto and Lillian Negron
7. Child's Play--una cosa naturale: An Italian Perspective
Rebecca S. New
8. African Children's Play and the Emergence of the Sexual Division of Labor
Marianne N. Bloch and Susan M. Adler
9. Meaning in Mud: Yup'ik Eskimo Girls at Play
Kathleen Bennett deMarrais, Patricia A. Nelson, and Jill H. Baker
10. Culture, Play, and Early Childhood Education
Celeste Lasater and James E. Johnson
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